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Where do most Senators go from the Senate? People often wonder. Some, of course, stay in the public-eye?Atlee Pomerene of Ohio by being oil scandals lawyer (see p. 12); Elihu Root by continuing as a patriarch of the bar; Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks...
Prediction. Said 93-year-old Chauncey Mitchell Depew last week: ". . . With a ringing speech by some leading Republican, I anticipate there will be a stampede, followed by a unanimous call to Mr. Coolidge to accept a renomination. I don't believe any human being could resist such a draft.... If I remember correctly I am the only man twice invited by acclamation to address a Republican National Convention, and without a time limit. I'd like to do it once more...
...raising teachers' salaries and to research work-not one cent for buildings. Yale salaries since 1913 have increased 50%, living expenses 78%. Minimum increase of salary under the proposed budget will be $221,000. Yale has 32,000 living alumni, of whom the press noted three-Chauncey Mitchell Depew, '56, Arthur Twining Hadley, '76, William Howard Taft, '78-as in the forefront of the drive. But, as everyone knows, a University drive depends for its success primarily upon the wits, the diplomacy, the oratory, the industry, of its President-in this case, James Rowland Angell, smart...
...Jeremiah McAuley, son of an Irish counterfeiter, and a river thief and drunkard on his own initiative, received a pardon signed by Secretary of State [of New York] Chauncey M. Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York...
Throughout newspaperdom gleeful journalists reflected that obituaries for every aging public man, from Andrew William Mellon, 72, to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 92, lie ready in the desks of most editors. Why not print them as their subjects reach the age of 70? Messrs. Mellon, Depew, and many another cheerful bigwig would relish well the jest. Would not many a reader prefer to scan while his idol is yet in the quick those shrewd estimates of attainment, and compendiums of little known facts reserved by custom for obituaries...